11 APRIL 1868, Page 3

The following advertisement appears in the Record:-

EARLSWOOD IDIOT ASYLUM.—The Rev. J. W. Burgon, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, entreats the favour of proxies for a poor friendless idiot (W. T. Beale), whose election about 100 more votes will secure. It is a very deserving case, and this is the child's last chance. He is no relation of "E. Beales, M.A." So pray help us The advertisement is, of course, a discreditable hoax. Dr. Burgon is certainly a scholar, and has never hitherto given the world any reason to believe that he is not a gentleman.